Be it. If it takes a week who cares . We ought to do this the right way. I think i would hope that we could all agree on that if not on the substance of the underlying bill, at least on the process to which we bring it to the floor. With that, i will yield back my time. I thank the gentleman very much. I stated earlier we live in glass houses up here. The gentleman is making a good point. I would like to retort that in the 110th congress when mrs. Slaughter was chairman the congress in the first year of the majority, the rules package had a consideration of five measures. Not a hearing. Not about the substance. The original day the rules package five measures. In the 111th congress the same. They were in the original package, not in the individual hearing. Six for six right in there. You know we all live in glass houses. Im not trying to call anybodys bluff. Just remember, you are trying to get your work done, too. And we can argue if this is about you do it so were going do it thats n
They wrote that thing, to protect us from that sort of thing. Okay, chris. Chris, i guess one of the issues i would have with your assessment is we have cut the deficits by more than half of what they were when george bush was president. The dow was about 7,000. It exceeded 17,000. The economy was up as i said, over 12 . Corporate profits up over 46 and so the suggestion that these policies were bad for america just frankly doesnt make sense to me. Now, what does is that those policies stopped the collapse of our economy but now weve got to build a foundation for people who have been left behind. For those middle class workers who have been looking at their pay stubs saying i dont see those statistics. And thats why i believe and why democrats believe, the focus has to be the middle class. They deserve a break because my sense is particularly in any district, people say if youre really rich, the government is there for you and if youre really poor, the government will help you but if y
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
President sarcoys of france. Chancellor merkel of germany and president calderone of mexico. It was initiated by congress but agreed to by all four leaders. So it is out of the ordinary that the speaker would decide that he would be inviting people to a joint session without any bipartisan consultation. And of course, we always our friendship with israel is a very strong one. Prime minister netanyahu has spoken to the joint session two times already. There are concerns about the fact that as i understand it from this morning, this presentation will take place within two weeks of the election in israel. I dont think that is appropriate for any country that the head of state would come here within two weeks of his own election in his own country. The more serious part of your question is about the sanctions. Yes, the president was correct in his presentation on the strength in which he presented his appeal to congress that we not have sanctions at this time. Putting it in perspective, th
Skyrocket thanks to increased coal prices. We also know from the whistleblower contractors that worked on the rule that the political appointees in the office of service mining tried to cover up these job loss numbers because they knew how politically damaging they would be in the runup to the 2012 election year. In fact, the contractors were threated that there, and i quote, would be consequences, if the contractor refused to change the numbers. Furthermore, a recent report from the Inspector General at the department of the interior confirmed these findings and even quoted the president appointed and senateapproved director of o. S. M. Saying that we need to, quote, fix the job loss numbers. Is this the type of Good Government that the American People expect of our leadership . A rulemaking process that sees political appointees threatening contractors and cooking the books to get a preferred outcome . Under the leadership of chairman doc hastings and the Natural Resources , the Natu